Mozart Apartments

... walked around Vienna ourselves... saw the sights like Opera and St Stephens Dom and the statues of Mozart and Strauss. - Visited the Imperial Apartments and heard the story of Empress Elisabeth. The story was interesting and seeing the knife that ...

... assassinated by an Italian anarchist in Geneva in 1898 at the age of 61. We had a fantastic wander through the Kaiser apartments and saw where and how Sissi and Franz Joseph lived. Franz Joseph was apparently a workaholic, starting his day around 3:30, ...

... nowhere. I got to my hostel around 9 and hit the town. I took in some more churchs, as well as a museum of Mozarts apartments where he grew up. The next day I checked out the fortress that Salzburg is also really well known for. Its the biggest fortress ...

... strolling along the Little Danube, we took the subway to Gasometer - where old 5-6story high gas tanks have been converted into apartments and shopping malls. It was a fascinating experience altogether. Overall, it seems, if we had to live in one city ...

... (although they did after the war..the germans destroyed what was left after the Americans left)...most of the buildings (SS apartments, the hotels, the brothel, the storage areas and the bunkers) are almost all still intact...there is a fantastic musuem ...

...  I'll off to the string concert in the nearby church to hear Vivaldi's famous 4 seasons and List's Hungarian Rhapsody and a little Mozart night music. I hope the videos work out so you can have a taste of what I thoroughly enjoyed over 1 hour and 10 ...

... AKA Sissy) plus those of Maria Theresa. We learned about all these characters the day before in the Hofburg Imperial Apartments. They duplicated their "stuff" in this magnificent summer palace that rivals Versailles. Sissy liked to come here, sneak ...

... were screaming about how tired they were the whole way up! Next stop: the infamous Hofburg Palace, including Imperial apartments, Imperial Chapel, Empress Sissy Museum, and a royal silver and porcelain collection. The silver collection was quite ...

... many unusual artifacts including an alleged unicorn horn (probably a Narwhal tusk).  This is absolutely a must see! Imperial Apartments, Sisi Museum and Silver Collection (Silberkammer) are available as a single tour.  The silver collection ...

... church all the way to the very top of the dome. The next stop was the Residenz State Rooms which are the former official apartments of the Salzburg prince archbishops.  We got about a 40 minute audio guide tour through it.  There was a huge ...

... far as the building goes I need only mention it has 1440 rooms. The 40 open to the public are the state apartments and private living quarters. I toured with the audio guide listening to stories about the Hapsburgs and soaked up the history in luxurious ...

The hotel room was a bit below our expectations, after all the wonderful apartments we had in the US, it was a little small but cozy enough. With raisin bread and milo brought from home by mum to tide us through the morning, it was time to head towards ...

... banquets today), the Sisi Museum (all about the life and death of the Empress, including her famous hair stars), and the imperial apartments. The most interesting fact, for me, was that Sisi had ankle length hair which took two to three hours every day to ...

... . One museum was dedicated to what else, more Sissi memorabilia including the knife with which she was stabbed. We also toured the royal apartments and got to see the royal dishes and cake pans. In a place like Vienna, the royal cake pans are pretty ...

... these days!)  It was a very good tour, though little did I know that you don’t actually get to the actual apartments that Mozart lived in until the end, and I had to rush through that part to meet my mom and grandma at the opera house by ...

... front of the palace. Dinner was at a very cute restaurant on an alley off of the Am Hof plaza, near one of Mozart's old apartments. Saturday we met up at Naschmarkt, which is a huge open air market. The permanents stalls are taken by fruit, meat and ...

... else. We will try to be at that door at 9 am tomorrow.   The museum of royal antiquities and their apartments was just across the way so after parting with several Euros we followed the trail through the dining tableware exhibits of the emperors ...

... got around to chatting until we were gathering things to go. We talked about how each of us was getting home to our apartments, and about the Fortessa Belvedere up behind the Pitti Palace as a good place to hang out for the view and relative solitude. ...

... are greeted with empty rooms, some displays showing pictures and numbers for the audio guides. The top two floors are old apartments but not Mozart’s. Mostly they contain pictures, copies of programs and it takes you on a bit of a history of ...